Beba
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/beβa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Beba is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Egypt than in any other country.
- EGEgypt≈1 in 64K(inferred from the name graph)
- ARArgentina≈1 in 131K
- USUnited States1 in 1.5M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Egypt (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 78 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,600 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Serbia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Beba counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EG Egypt | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 64K | — | Beba | 19 |
| RS Serbia | ≈510 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Beba | 3 |
| GT Guatemala | ≈430 est. | ≈1 in 40K | — | Beba | 7 |
| AR Argentina | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 131K | 2 | Beba | 30 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 104K | — | Beba | 11 |
| US United States | 226 | 1 in 1.5M | 218 | Beba | 78 |
| PY Paraguay | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 36K | — | Beba | 10 |
| DO Dominican Republic | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 57K | — | Beba | 9 |
| LY Libya | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 51K | — | Beba | 3 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Beba is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Galician, inflection of beber:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swahili, to transport, carry
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In ve, to bear
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In umi, mouth
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Yoruba, paper
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Serbo-Croatian, baby
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 34 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Beba?
- A machine transcription gives /beβa/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Beba a male or female name?
- Beba is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Beba have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.6 thousand people named Beba in Egypt, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled beba.
- How common is the name Beba?
- In the United States, the national register counted 226 people named Beba in 2020, about 1 in 1.5 million residents.
What do you want to know about Beba?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bebaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Beba”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.